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Dolon then informed the two Greeks which Trojan allies were living in which tent and what their strengths were. After this, Odysseus went back on his promise and Dolon was decapitated by Diomedes before the two went into the Trojan camp to wreak havoc, slaying Rhesus , king of Thrace , and stealing his valuable horses. [ 2 ]
The people of Macedonia, who were not used to such honours to their kings by their consorts, buried her with him at the Great Tumuli of Vergina, in a separate room. The second larnax found in the tomb might belong to her [ 4 ] as well as the gold myrtle wreath .
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The founder of the dynasty, Basil I, born a peasant in Thrace or Macedonia around 830–836, Basil relocated to Constantinople, where he initially worked as a groom. His fortunes changed when Emperor Michael III took notice of him and brought him into the imperial household. Michael compelled Basil to divorce his wife and marry the emperor’s ...
Thraco-Macedonian is a conventional name in the study of ancient history to describe the political geography of Macedonia (region) in antiquity. It may refer to: Thraco-Macedonian coins or Thraco-Macedonian standard. Ancient coins of Thracian tribes (or tribes who have been labelled as Thracian) in Macedonia (region), like those of Bergaios and ...
The Thracian religion comprised the mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the Thracians, a collection of closely related ancient Indo-European peoples who inhabited eastern and southeastern Europe and northwestern Anatolia throughout antiquity and who included the Thracians proper, the Getae, the Dacians, and the Bithynians.
The Edoni (also Edones, Edonians, Edonides) (Greek: Ἠδωνιοί) were a Thracian tribe [1] [2] [3] who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios. [4] They inhabited the region of Mygdonia before the Macedonians drove them out. [5]
Rhesus (Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος, Rhēsos) is an Athenian tragedy that belongs to the transmitted plays of Euripides.Its authorship has been disputed since antiquity, [1] and the issue has invested modern scholarship since the 17th century when the play's authenticity was challenged, first by Joseph Scaliger and subsequently by others, partly on aesthetic grounds and partly on account of ...